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...Macmillan reinforced his key appointments by naming eleven lively, like-minded younger Tories to second-level posts. Among them: Geoffrey Rippon, 38, an expert on European local government and Britain's housing problems, who was named to the new post of Minister of Public Building and Works; Edward du Cann, also 38, who organized a spectacularly successful investment fund in his early 30s, and now becomes economic secretary to the Treasury; Nigel Fisher, 49, one of the few Tories to denounce the government's bill restricting Commonwealth immigration, who becomes parliamentary under secretary to the Colonial Office...
...Du FONT'S second-quarter sales of $631 million were the highest in its history, and its earnings rose to $2.52 per share, v. $2.15 last year. Du Pont is starting a $50 million program to expand its nylon plants...
...give him enough chance to "exteriorize myself." He turned to conducting and graduated with the conservatory's Premier Prix for leading an orchestra. An offer from an independent record company to make recordings of 18th century French music led Frémaux to his first Grand Prix du Disque (in 1955) and gave him a national reputation. But when he was called back to the Legion in 1956 for duty in Algeria, he had yet to show what he could do in a permanent conducting post...
High Pressure. Wherever Bach buffs gather, Scherbaum can be found-at the Ansbach Festival, for instance, and in recording studios all over Europe (his recordings have three times won France's Grand Prix du Bisque). When Otto Klemperer embarked on a project to record all six Brandenburg concertos with London's Philharmonia Orchestra, he routed Scherbaum out of bed with a long distance call and implored him to take a morning plane to England. When Scherbaum played the Second Brandenburg in Moscow, the solo trumpeter of the State Symphony Orchestra rushed backstage to embrace...
...told, 410 stocks, running the gamut from glamour to blue chip, hit new 1962 lows last week. Among them were the shares of such preeminently solid companies as Shell Oil (29½), Ford (74¼), General Electric (55½), U.S. Steel (42½), General Foods (61), Du Pont (170⅝) and Dow Chemical (42⅛). A.T. & T., which last year joined the growth stock club with a high of 239⅞, ended last week at 100⅜. Quipped one analyst: "If it goes to 90, it will be paying 4% and will be right back where it started...